Serious A458 crash in Shropshire on 19 June 2013 at 19:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the A458 in Shropshire at 19:30 on Wednesday 19 June 2013. The 33-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Jun 2013
- Wednesday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.63574, longitude -2.61187, in the SY5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Shropshire
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201322F302304
- Council area
- Shropshire
- Police force
- West Mercia
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 458
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 31 May 1994.
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 31 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199422FD04489
Slight
Car crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 28 November 1981
10 m awayRef 1981220611060
Serious
Nissan 200 crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 21 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200422FB41330
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 2 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199922FB10036
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 10 September 2005
14 m awayRef 200522FB45505
Serious
Ford Granada crash on the A458 in Shropshire, 4 August 1990
22 m awayRef 1990220608014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 201322F302304 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Shropshire road accident statistics for 2013.